Immortal Soul of Steel

After successfully blasting the Thunder Gundam's head monitor with the head Vulcan Cannon.

The Air Combat Strike Gundam also took the opportunity to kick the Thunder Gundam and cut off the hook lock of the Thunder Gundam's hook anchor with the beam of the beam boomerang in its left hand.

"Nichole!?"

In Aslan's exclamation, the Air Combat Strike Gundam raised the beam gun in his hand and wanted to make up for it. But it was blocked by the roaring Aslan controlling the Divine Shield Gundam.

"Kira, stop it!!!"

A thick red beam was shot from the side of the Air Combat Strike Gundam, and the Air Combat Strike Gundam had to dodge.

"Aslan, calm down, I just want to remove the Thunder Gundam's armament."

After replying to Aslan in the common frequency, Lin Youde controlled the Air Combat Strike Gundam and put down the beam rifle in his hand. Turn around and rush to the inside of the fortress.

"Take your friend and go. With the current state of Thunder Gundam, there is no way to continue fighting. For his safety, retreat, Aslan."

After that, the air-combat strike Gundam rushed out of the port. Picking up a pile of things that were obviously supplies, he turned and flew towards the Archangel, which was about to fly out of the port.

Seeing the air combat-type strike Gundam turned and left, he didn't look defensive at all. The Divine Shield Gundam, which returned to its MS form, raised the beam rifle in his hand at the back of the Air Combat Strike Gundam, and aimed for several seconds, but failed to shoot the beam.

"hateful!"

In the cockpit of the Aegis Gundam, Aslan punched the console.

Nicole: "Aslan..."

Aslan didn't say a word, controlling the Divine Shield Gundam and dragging the damaged Thunderbolt Gundam to fly out.

Seeing Aslan being so silent, Nicole comforted: "Aslan, I think it's actually fine."

Aslan raised his head slightly: "Nichole?"

Nicole smiled and said, "In this way, don't we have a legitimate reason to retreat?"

"Also, Kira may not be able to escape."

"Don't forget, the captain is out with Yitzhak and Diego. There are other people who came to support before."

"With so many people here, no matter how powerful Kira is, he can't fly, right?"

"As long as the captain, Yitzhak, Diego and the others work hard. I believe Kira and Strike Gundam will be captured."

"It might be a pain in the **** though. But we won't have to fight him after all, will we?"

"Thinking about it better. At least, we have now broken through a cosmic fortress of the Earth Union. It doesn't mean that we have done nothing. I believe the captain won't blame us."

Aslan's originally remorseful expression gradually relaxed, and after a long time, Aslan replied, "Thank you, Nicole."

Nicole smiled and said: "Where are we not partners? This is what it should be. Besides, I think Aslan, you'd better drag my Thunder Gundam out now."

"Now without the view of the main monitor, in this base that's broken enough to explode at any moment. I don't always feel safe."

Aslan calmed down: "That's right, let's retreat first. Our mission has been completed, and then we will leave it to the captain and the others..."

Aegis Gundam and Thunder Gundam are out of the battlefield.

But outside the Artemis fortress, on the bridge of the Archangel that had just left the port, Mariu and others found the two Zaft warships displayed on the radar.

Mirialia: "At 3 o'clock, I found a battleship-level reaction, the number is 2. It's the Zaft Army!"

Natal was shocked: "Artemis fell like this? It's so simple..."

Mariu was very calm, because she had already thought of this possibility in her communication with Lin Youde and Mu before.

As one of the people involved in the production of 5 Gundams first-hand. Mariu also has a good understanding of Thunder Gundam's abilities. It's just that as a non-combat professional, her association speed is not as fast as Lin Youde's.

But after Lin Youde reminded her, she also thought of Thunder Gundam's mirage system, which could escape the monitoring of Artemis. Sneak into the surface of the fortress and destroy the generator of the light wave defense shield known as absolute defense in the Earth Alliance.

As long as the Thunderbolt Gundam destroys the generation devices of these light wave defense shields, it is not surprising that the Artemis fortress will be invaded and attacked.

The reason why they didn't tell Natal about it was that the three of them were worried that Natal would tell Artemis' defenders about it.

It's not that he wanted to trick the friendly army on purpose, but he deliberately kept a hand for his own safety.

If the defenders of Artemis treated each other with courtesy, Mary and Mu were also ready to inform each other that the Zaft Army would use the Thunder Gundam's mirage system to hide the body and avoid the detection of various radars, thereby launching a surprise attack. (Note 1)

Unfortunately, Artemis detained the three of them, and let people steal the data of the Strike Gundam and Archangel.

Since the other party is not a human being, it can't be blamed on them for keeping the fortress secret.

After going through the previous things in her mind, Mary replied calmly.

"Turn the direction and evacuate from the Artemis fortress at full speed. Mu immediately attacked with Mebius Zero, and together with Kira-kun, blocked the pursuit of the Zaft army."

Saying that, Mariu exhaled lightly and said: "Fortunately, the direction of the Zaft Army is at the back of the Artemis Fortress. There is Artemis Fortress blocking it, as long as the MS's attack is blocked. The battleship wants to chase Getting up, I'm afraid it won't be that easy. The Archangel is the latest high-speed warship."

Natal turned around and looked at Mariu in surprise: "Mebius Zero will be dispatched at this time? Captain, what are you thinking? Isn't this time to take the opportunity to recover the Strike Gundam and then retreat?"

It seems that he was angry with the attitude of the Eurasian Federation officers before, but Natal did not say anything to stay and help the friendly forces. Just surprised at Mariu's arrangement.

Mariu shook her head: "This is what Kira-kun meant. According to him, only if the mobile suits of the Zaft Army are disabled, they will not easily pursue them."

"And the number of pursuits by the Zaft army has increased significantly this time. If you don't take advantage of the friendly forces on the Artemis fortress to resist, disperse the opponent's pursuers and destroy them one by one."

"Then what we have to face is the Zaft Army, which has an absolutely overwhelming number."

"Once there are too many, even Kira-kun~www.wuxiamtl.com~ may not be able to carry it."

"So, we have to annihilate some of them here."

Natal's mouth twitched slightly: "Destroy a part of the enemy army? Is it just a strike Gundam?"

During the common frequency, Mu shouted: "Hey, Natal, have you forgotten me, isn't this still me?"

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Note 1·PS: Explain the role of the mirage system for readers who do not understand.

Mirage System: An optical camouflage system unique to the SEED world. The effect is that the body is invisible for a certain period of time, and the radar will not respond, but the price is that the use time is limited and the effect of phase-shift armor cannot be exerted when used.

In the original work, the fortress was broken by relying on Thunder Gundam's "mirage system" to evade detection, thus breaking Artemis' light wave defense shield device.

The light wave defense shield is a kind of barrier known as absolute defense effect in the world of Gundam SEED. It can resist live ammunition and beam attacks. It has extremely strong defense capabilities, but consumes a lot of energy.